Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Six-time Tony Award Winner Audra McDonald will return to Broadway this fall in one of musical theater’s greatest roles: “Mama” Rose of Gypsy. The revival will be directed by George C. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:30PMThe updated iteration of Gerard Alessandrini’s long-running Forbidden Broadway revue is heading back to Off Broadway following a brief flirtation with the prospect of a Broadway move. Forb…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:44PMMichael Urie will reprise his Off Broadway performance opposite Sutton Foster in the upcoming Broadway summer transfer of Once Upon A Mattress, the Mary Rodgers musical newly adapted by Amy …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:02AMBroadway box office was down just a bit last week, about 3%, with the first week of the 2024-2025 season reporting a total gross of $35,295,405 for 34 productions. Total attendance was off j…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:22AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Peter Friedman and Sydney Lemmon will reprise their roles from Max Wolf Friedlich’s hit Off Broadway play Job when the play arrives on Broadway this summer. Directed by Michael Herwitz, Jo…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:10AMFriday, May 24, 2024
More decades ago than many of us care to admit, a rock and roll album as gorgeous in sound as it was cantankerous in spirit arrived in record stores and on radio charts that could hardly hav…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMWednesday, May 22, 2024
Attendance for Broadway’s just-ended 2023-2024 season held roughly steady with last year even as it remains nearly 17% below pre-pandemic levels, according to box office figures released t…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:41PMNetflix and Sonia Friedman Productions today released the first look trailer for the world premiere West End production of Stranger Things: The First Shadow, taking the moment to also announ…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:18AMThe Wilma Theater in Philadelphia will be the recipient of the 2024 Regional Theatre Tony Award, an annual honor recognizing a regional theatre company that has displayed “a continuous lev…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:34AMMonday, May 20, 2024
Next month, when the 2024 Tony Awards for excellence in Broadway theater are handed out, hair and wig designer Nikiya Mathis will be honored with a Special Tony for her work on the acclaimed…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMSwept Away, the musical with music and lyrics by roots rock band The Avett Brothers, will arrive on Broadway this fall following previous stagings at California’s Berkeley Repertory Theatr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMFriday, May 17, 2024
Broadway’s Stereophonic and Hell’s Kitchen were named the season’s Outstanding Play and Outstanding Musical by The Drama League, with Sarah Paulson winning the Distinguished Performanc…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:40PMIllinoise, the dance-musical hybrid nominated for four Tony Awards (including Best Musical) is the seventh collaboration between Justin Peck, the resident choreographer and artistic advisor …
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMSutton Foster, just off a run in Sweeney Todd, will star in a musical revival of Once Upon a Mattress on Broadway this summer. The production, a new adaptation by Amy Sherman-Palladino that …
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:21AMWednesday, May 15, 2024
The stage musical adaptation of Death Becomes Her will open on Broadway this fall, with Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber and Destiny’s Child’s Michelle Williams in the pr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMTuesday, May 14, 2024
Broadway’s spring roster seemed to settle into a Tony season box office ranking, with the strongest of the newcomers maintaining their draws and the weakest continuing downward slides. In …
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:21PMEmmy and Golden Globe-winner Darren Criss (American Buffalo, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story) will return to the stage alongside Helen J Shen (The Lonely Few, Teeth…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:00AMMonday, May 13, 2024
Samm-Art Williams, whose Tony-nominated 1979 play Home is being revived on Broadway this year and whose TV producing credits include Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Martin and Hangin’ with Mr. Co…
SOURCE: Deadline at 09:28PMDavid Adjmi’s Stereophonic was named Best Play of the year by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle today, with the Best Musical Award going to the Off Broadway production of Dead Outlaw fr…
SOURCE: Deadline at 08:13PMGeorge Clooney will become a Broadway actor for the first time next year when he stars as Edward R. Murrow in Good Night, and Good Luck, a stage adaptation of his 2005 Oscar-nominated film. …
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMFriday, May 10, 2024
Holland Taylor and Ana Villafañe will star in the Off Broadway world premiere of Mario Correa’s new play N/A this summer, playing congresswomen of different generations in a production di…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AMThursday, May 9, 2024
The Broadway production of Illinoise has dedicated the entire run of the musical to production stage manager Thomas J. Gates, who was struck and killed by a New Jersey Transit train yesterda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 05:30PMTony-winning directors George C. Wolfe and Jack O’Brien will each receive the 2024 Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre next month, Tony administrators announced toda…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:47PMWednesday, May 8, 2024
Tonight’s performance of Broadway’s Sufjan Stevens dance musical Illinoise has been canceled due to the death of a backstage company member. The death did not occur at the St. James Thea…
SOURCE: Deadline at 06:17PMEXCLUSIVE: Sam Morrison’s acclaimed solo play Sugar Daddy will be staged in Beverly Hills, California, prior to a planned, previously unannounced Broadway run in 2025. The comic and poigna…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:00PMA Tony Awards simulcast event called Broadway Fanfare will take place outdoors at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park during the awards ceremony on Sunday, June 16. Sponsored by American Expres…
SOURCE: Deadline at 11:21AMTuesday, May 7, 2024
The great Broadway Crunch of Spring 2024, when 18 new productions opened between mid-March and late April – 19 if you count the commercial transfer of Appropriate – seems to be showing e…
SOURCE: Deadline at 03:53PMNew York’s Public Theater announced its upcoming season at their Astor Place home as well as Central Park’s to-be-reopened Delacorte Theater where the Public will stage Twelfth Night, di…
SOURCE: Deadline at 02:00PMRobert Downey Jr. will make his his Broadway debut in the lead role of McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, author of the Tony-nominated Junk and the Pulitzer-winner Disgraced. Downey will p…
SOURCE: Deadline at 12:45PMSchmigadoon! the musical comedy TV series is about to become Schmigadoon! the musical comedy stage production. Kennedy Center’s Broadway Center Stage in Washington D.C. announced today tha…
SOURCE: Deadline at 10:58AMMonday, May 6, 2024
Primary Trust, Eboni Booth’s play that was given an Off Broadway staging by Roundabout Theatre Company last summer, won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Drama today. The play was described by t…
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